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Senior Product Designer

Product DesignerProduct DesignerFull TimeRemoteTeam 501-1,000Since 2017H1B SponsorCompany Site LinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

109 days ago

Salary

$216.9K / year

Postgraduate Degree8 yrs expEnglish

Job Description

• Work closely with product managers, user researchers, engineers, and data analysts from the start to end of a feature. • Create high quality designs, interactions, and prototypes to explore ideas in service of the best solution for the project (Wave uses Figma). • Craft user research plans and work directly with our product operations analysts/user researchers to identify problems and validate solutions in user testing. • Contribute to Wave’s design system and component library. • Talk to customers and find solutions to their problems by thinking critically from their perspective. • Communicate the reasoning behind your product decisions in review sessions. • Prototype visual and UX concepts and iterate towards the right solution.

Job Requirements

Fluency in English.
At least 8 years of end-to-end in-house experience, preferably with a consumer focus product design with mobile apps.
Excellent visual and interaction design skills, with an eye at removing friction from flows.
Attention to detail and high level of visual craft.
Strong illustration and animation skills. We use After Effects at Wave but anything that can be converted to a Lottie file works.
Ability to deliver high-quality designs with speed and polish.
Bias towards action. Identify UX improvements without waiting for the perfect conditions.
Experience with low and high-fidelity design & prototyping.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Ability to think through complex interaction design as well as thinking about tradeoffs of each solution.
Curiosity for understanding and unpacking customer behaviors and needs.
Experience balancing business goals, customer needs, and technical tradeoffs, while explaining your point of view to the team.

Benefits

Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country).
6 months of fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance.
Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 21-30 days exclusive of statutory holidays.
$10,000 annual charitable donation matching.